I was free and no one called me!  I guess that teachers don’t like to get sick in December.  It made me sad to only work one day this week.  I studied a little, bought some stocks (based on the research I had been doing for my son), and then watched a movie.  Somewhere in the early part of my day, my wife called me because she was short some spaghetti sauce for her class.  I had to bring some to her.  While I was at the school, I told the principal the good news that I would be there starting in January.

The movie I wound up watching was a German movie called “The Black Box.”  It was about the Dutch Jewish resistance during WWII.  It was a pretty great movie, though per usual with European movies, there was full frontal male and female nudity.  Europeans don’t have the same hang-ups that Americans do about nudity, and truthfully, the nudity didn’t bother me at all because it sure didn’t bother the actors.  It just was what it was, and it was very appropriate for this movie.

In the evening, my son and I went to band practice.  We got there at the normal time, only to discover that a Christmas Play rehearsal was in progress.  We had to wait until it was over before we could play.  Based on the dress rehearsal, I don’t think this play is going to be a huge hit.